Darren New schrieb:
> Michael Zier wrote:
>> Am Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:45:08 +0100 schrieb Invisible:
>>
>>> volition anyway; it's not like it requires a *force* to drive them or
>>> anything...
>>
>> Well, strictly spoken no. Newtons first law applies to electrons too... 
> 
> Uhhh.... No, not really. :-)  Indeed, electrons aren't even guaranteed 
> to move forward in time, let alone in a smooth straight line.
> 
> Oh, I guess maybe Newton's laws apply as long as there are no virtual 
> exchange particles around. And the electron doesn't spontaneously turn 
> into a couple of photons and back.
> 
Yes, they can do some weird stuff, especially in periodic potentials (a 
crystal i.e.) like having negative effective masses and such.

But in Andy's Universe(TM)* they are just point-like objects having 
mass, charge, position and impulse. And the latter two might fulfill 
some dx*dp>=K relation.

* introduced for explaining single aspects of complex things

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